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Airdrie man missing in Montana

An Airdrie family is living its worst nightmare – the unexplained disappearance of one of its own.
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Cam Collin, 37, went missing on a recent trip to Billings, Mont., and his family in Airdrie is hoping someone will have information regarding his whereabouts.

An Airdrie family is living its worst nightmare – the unexplained disappearance of one of its own.

“We’re just hoping someone will come forward with some information,” said Julia Collin, younger sister of Cameron Collin, an Airdrie resident who disappeared from Billings, Mont., Oct. 4. “We don’t even really know what happened. We’ve been getting mixed stories from the people there.”

Cam Collin is 37 years old, 6’5” and works as a petroleum engineer, often travelling to various locations throughout the United States. He was booked into the Baymont Hotel in Billings but never showed up to claim his reservation, according to his sister. His family does not believe he has chosen to disappear, Collin said.

“He would never do this to my mother. He knows how much she worries about her children,” she said. “He would never put this kind of stress on our parents.”

Cam has not been seen since attending a bachelor party at a private property outside of Billings, according to Collin. The bride and groom own the property, and the wedding went ahead Oct. 6, without Cam.

“My brother is actually closer friends with the bride, but he was hanging out with the boys that evening,” Collin said. “He went to Montana Tech and she was his college roommate. He was quite excited to go down to Billings for this wedding.”

Collin said the other men at the party decided to head into Billings to go a bar at approximately 10 p.m., leaving Cam behind. Why he was purposefully left behind is a question Collin said she hasn’t received a straight answer to.

“They’ve given us some vague information about what went on [at the party]– some say he passed out, some say he was just too intoxicated, others say he was not feeling well,” she said. “They say they went to the bar for just a few minutes – like, 30 minutes. Then, everyone came home and went to bed.”

Collin said she was told those attending the party assumed Cam had fallen asleep, taken a taxi into Billings or decided to make the approximately one-hour journey by foot.

“If he had been walking, they would have seen him because they weren’t gone that long,” she said. “Sheriffs have contacted the taxis, and Uber doesn’t exist there, but nobody was called to that property that night.”

Cam also left his jacket and some other belongings at the property, something Collin said he wouldn’t normally do. The Yellowstone County Sheriff’s department is leading the investigation, she said, and has been dredging a nearby creek and following up on numerous leads – but so far, there’s been no sign of her brother.

What is very disturbing to Collin, she said, is the time it took for Cam’s disappearance to be reported to local law enforcement. He was last seen Oct. 4, but was not reported missing until Oct. 7.

“I did get contacted Oct. 6 by one of the [bride’s] sisters, just saying they hadn’t been able to get a hold of him and were wondering if I’d heard from him,” she said.

“We just want to know what happened to my brother. He’s a charismatic social butterfly and gets along with everybody. Everyone knows him as this tall, gentle giant. Our minds have just been going crazy, going over all the possibilities. This has really hit my poor mother really hard.”

A GoFundMe page to raise funds to offer a substantial reward for information regarding Cam’s whereabouts, and to pay for ongoing travel costs to Montana for Collin and other members of her family, has been set up. A total of $12,525 had been raised by noon Oct. 17.

Anyone whttps://www.gofundme.com/missing-airdrie-man-in-billings-monith any information about Cameron Collin’s whereabouts is asked to call local RCMP.

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